Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
20 May - 11:31 pm NZ
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Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, at 7:00 pm
7:00 pm on Wednesday (22 May 2013)
High-class Middlebrow
Three British Light Music Conductors
(1) John Wilson
Brian Kay talks to conductor, composer, arranger John Wilson, whose musical genius is behind many successful projects in light music and film music. His annual concert with his own orchestra has become a huge hit at the BBC Proms and sells out quicker than any other (RNZ)
7:00 pm on Thursday (23 May 2013)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A feature recorded in 1999 by New Zealander Barry Empson, who passed away recently at the age of 67 (RNZ)
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- Making Maestros - Day One
We talk to Pietari Inkinen, Peter Walls and Claire Lewis from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, then we meet the five participants. This episode focuses on the first day of sessions in the Hunter Council Chamber at Victoria University, where the five conducted two pianists in reductions of full orchestral scores.
This programme also looks at opportunities for conductors at the high school level. Robbie talks to two teenage conductors who were invited to observe the final day of the NZSO Conductor Workshops: Matthew Lee (17, Gisborne) and Alexander Eichelbaum (16, Auckland); and two Heads of Music of musically prolific secondary schools: Rowan Johnston (Westlake Girls' High School, Auckland) and Helen Renaud (Burnside High School, Christchurch). (59′46″)
- From Making Maestros on 07 Aug 2011
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- Appointment for 4 July 2011 - Light Music: Going Places
Brian Kay presents a selection of his favourite pieces of Light Music. In this programme his theme is "Going Places". (55′36″)
- From Appointment on 04 Jul 2012
- Appointment for 11 July 2011 - Light Music: Signature Tunes
Brian Kay presents a selection of his favourite pieces of Light Music. In this programme his theme is "Signature Tunes". (56′00″)
- From Appointment on 11 Jul 2012
- Appointment for 18 July 2011 - Light Music: Into the Future
Brian Kay presents a selection of his favourite pieces of Light Music. In this programme, rather than celebrating the glories of the past, he looks at living composers taking the genre into the future. (55′07″)
- From Appointment on 18 Jul 2012
- The Valkyrie
Erica Challis takes us through the story and themes of Wagner's opera. (58′50″)
- From Appointment on 19 Jul 2012
- Appointment for 9 August 2012 - Nabucco
Elizabeth Hudson introduces Verdi's first successful opera. (57′37″)
- From Appointment on 09 Aug 2012
- Appointment for 23 August 2012 - Fanelli (1860-1917)
The original Impressionist? (55′32″)
- From Appointment on 23 Aug 2012
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- Song of America
This 13-part series presented by Thomas Hampson examines connections between poetry, music, history and culture from the perspective of classic American song - Philosophy Talk
presented by Ken Taylor and John Perry of Stanford University
